Biography

The Offspring's metal-inflected punk became a popular sensation in 1994, selling over four million albums on an independent record label. While the group's credentials and approach follow the indie rock tradition of the '80s, sonically they sound more like an edgy, hard-driving heavy metal band, with their precise, pulsing power chords and Dexter Holland's flat vocals. The Nirvana soundalike "Come Out and Play," the first single from 1994's Smash, became an MTV hit in the summer of 1994, which paved the way to radio success. Following a move to Columbia, the band scored another hit with "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)." ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Top Tracks

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• (can't Get My) Head Around You

• A Million Miles Away

• All I Want

• Beheaded

• Come Out And Play (keep 'em Separated)

• Come Out Swinging

• Elders

• Gone Away

• Gotta Get Away

• Hammerhead

• Hit That

• Jennifer Lost The War

• Leave It Behind

• Long Way Home

• Me & My Old Lady

• Nitro (youth Energy)

• No Hero

• One Fine Day

• Pretty Fly (for A White Guy)

• Self Esteem

• Session

• She's Got Issues

• Staring At The Sun

• Stuff Is Messed Up

• The Kids Aren't Alright

• Want You Bad

• We Are One

• Why Don't You Get A Job?

• You're Gonna Go Far, Kid

Discography

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• Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace

  Columbia

  2008

• Conspiracy of One

  Columbia

  2000

• Americana

  Columbia

  1998

• Ixnay on the Hombre

  Columbia

  1997

• Smash

  Epitaph

  1994

• Ignition

  Epitaph

  1993

• The Offspring

  Epitaph

  1989